Health risks of weight loss
By: Frances M. Berg.
Contributors: Berg, Francie M.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Healthy Weight Journal
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Hettinger, ND
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Weight loss; Reducing diets; Health risk assessment
Notes: "The special report was initially published in part in Health risks of obesity in 1992"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-152) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Risks of weight loss. General treatment risks; title: Starvation and fad diets; title: Diet pills and drugs; title: Purging, exercise; title: Surgery; title: Sports and athletes; title: Eating disorders : physical and mental effects; title: Psychological risks; title: Weight cycling; title: Mortality increase with weight loss; title: Thinness : a cultural obsession; title: Effectiveness of treatment. II. Challenges for healthy change. To treat or not to treat; title: Diet industry regulation; title: Challenges for wellness and wholeness.